Diminution at Epoch Coffee

Photography is inherent to memory because it is a representation of the past, yet recent studies of the human mind reveal that our memories are always in flux. Our recollections are continuously altered over time and the things we once knew become increasingly diminished the more we recall or revisit our own histories. Diminution investigates contemporary understandings of memory and its relationship to the malleable mind through the physicality of a photograph. In this form, the prints examine new ways photography can more accurately portray the process of remembrance and how the mind records, retains, and recollects memories.

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• Framed Prints Pricing

  $85

  All photographs are printed on Moab Entrada 300 gsm paper. The image is printed at 8x12” in a 14x18” white frame with a white mat.

• Unframed Prints Pricing

  All photographs are printed on Moab Entrada 300 gsm paper. The images are protected with foam board backing and stored in an archival cellophane bag.

  $45
  An edition of 10 printed at 10x15” on 13x18” paper

  $40
  An edition of 15 printed at 8x12” on 12x16” paper

  $35
  An edition of 15 printed at 6x9” on 8x11” paper

  $30
  An edition of 20 printed at 4x6” on 5x7” paper

  $25
  An edition of 20 printed at 3x4.5” on 3.5x5” paper

All works are available for sale. Please contact Sara at sarameganfields@gmail.com to inquire.

Woodland Creatures

Northwest Vista College Faculty Exhibition

I’m honored to be showing work alongside so many talented artists and educators in the Northwest Vista College Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition. Below is a wonderful video of the gallery walls at the Palmetto Center for the Arts. Check it out!

Mercy of the Moon at A Smith Gallery

I’m thrilled to be included in the Mercy of the Moon exhibit at A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. Juror Kevin Tully selected so many stunning pieces to showcase in The Salon. The show will be on view from May 14th through July 4th with Facebook Live receptions on May 29th and June 26th! Please stop by to check out the work in person or follow along with Amanda and Kevin while they livestream their beautiful gallery space.

He rode in an elevator with Donald Fagen in Miami, in January. The lyric played, crisp, perfect, through the radio in his memory. "Learn to work the saxophone," repeated itself over and over in his head as the elevator moved to the seventeenth floor. "Thanks," he said as Donald Fagan exited the elevator. Fagan stopped and turned, raised his dark glasses, blinked both eyes, then moved on. "The full moon was on January the thirty-first and I was in Miami on an elevator with Donald Fagan," he said. "Were you in love?" she asked. "Well, ha, yes. If you would have seen him, standing there, the full moon big and gold, orange in the mirrored wall behind him, he stood there for just a second or two. Yeah, you never really lose or forget your first loves, even if they only exist in song,'' he said. "I believe you. Mine was a moon pie," she said. "Food doesn't count. You can eat something at five and then at thirty and it tastes the same," he said, "really good music ripens as you age," he said. "Really," she said, "you haven't been paying attention." "Do you think they have moon pies over at the store?" he asked. "And RC Cola?" she said..."
From "The Moon Stories" By Franklin Cincinnatus

In-Camera: Fugitive Processes at the Palmetto Center for the Arts

I'm so pleased to be part of the In-Camera: Fugitive Processes exhibition with two of my photography colleagues, Cosby Lindquist and Desiree Schanding! Please come by the Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College to see the work on display from Tuesday, January 21st through Saturday, February 29th.

In-Camera: Fugitive Processes presents recent works by Northwest Vista College photography faculty Sara Fields, Cosby Lindquist, and Desiree Schanding. Artworks represent wide-ranging experimental photographic processes that explore the structure and meaning of the photographic image itself. Sara Fields investigates contemporary understandings of memory and its relationship to the malleable mind through the physicality of a photograph. Desiree Schanding’s work isolates and reveals the hidden mask of digital mark-making present in the retouching processes of commercial portrait work. Cosby Lindquist creates complex paper landscapes to explore how the single point perspective of the camera lens alters the depiction of space within the photographic image.

Video of Diminution at the Dougherty Arts Center

Diminution at the Dougherty Arts Center closes on October 5th. I would love for you to come by during its last week on view! I really appreciate all of the support; whether it was kind words, sharing information about the exhibit, stopping by to see the work in person, or purchasing a print. You’re all too wonderful for words!

An Overview of the Diminution Exhibition at the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin, Texas from August 1st to October 5th, 2019.

Thank you so much to Dougherty Arts Center for all of the assistance and hospitality over the last year and a half, but especially in the last two months. It’s an experience I will never forget and I’m so grateful to have had this opportunity. Austin is unbelievably lucky to have this space!

Diminution at the Dougherty Arts Center

I’m very excited, grateful, and honored to announce that my series Diminution will be on display at the Dougherty Arts Center during FotoATX 2019 between August 1st to October 5th. The opening reception is August 3rd from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Come by to check out some photography! And please let me know if you want an exhibition card. I’d be happy to get one to you!

Get ready! The 2nd Annual FotoATX Festival is just around the corner and the JCB Gallery at the DAC is proud to host three very talented and unique photographers! Join us for an Artist Reception on August 3 and enjoy light refreshments while reminiscing with Meeghan Morongova about familiar feelings of childhood, exploring vibrant cultures found in Peter Shen's images, and diving into the hauntingly beautiful scenes created by Sara Fields.

In its second year, FotoATX is a collaboration between the City of Austin’s Museums and Cultural Programs Division of the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, the City’s Library Division, and other community partners. To learn more about FotoATX, please visit www.fotoatx.org.

Dougherty Arts Center Facebook Event
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The Title is Nine Instagram Takeover

I’m really excited to takeover The Title Is Nine’s Instagram next week, May 20th - May 26th. Please follow along with me while I detail some of my work, processes, and influences. I’m also hoping to show off my copy of Nine: This Land and potentially reveal some fun news, if all goes according to plan!

Nine: This Land is now available! Support the work of these talented women and pick up a copy while supplies last!

This Land at The Title is Nine

I’m truly excited to be featured in This Land through The Title is Nine amongst so many talented artists, including Jenny Chu, Renee Couture, Rena Detrixhe, Edna Lanieri, Crystal McBrayer, Alyssa McDonald, Melissa McGrath, and Jessica Tawczynski. Each week a new artist will be shown and a ‘zine is expected to be produced! To see all of the work and more about The Title is Nine, click here.

“Nine was named in recognition of Title IX, a section of the Education Amendments of 1972 which stated:

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

The changes that came from these 37 words opened doors for women to excel in academics, athletics, and beyond, as well as helped to define a federally funded institution’s responsibility to end sexual harassment and violence.”

SHE. at Soma Vida Gallery

I’m thrilled to be included in the SHE. exhibit featured at Soma Vida Gallery in Austin, Texas. The exhibition will be on view from December 7th to January 11th, with an opening reception on December 7th from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Come by and say hello!

SHE is an art exhibition that aims to provide a space for self identifying women photographers to showcase their work and speak their truth. Our hope is to bring attention to the multifaceted experiences of women in the world at large.

For more information on Soma Vida, please click here.

Flawed Beings at Light Leaked

I’m so grateful to be included in the Flawed Beings publication at Light Leaked, which was curated by artist Michael Kirchoff. This is a really beautiful collection of images, including work by the following artists: Sandy Kroopf, Mike Dillow, Victoria E. Crayhon, Marc Lorenzetti, Katie Prock, Ronnie Peoples, Stacie Smith, Amy Kanka Valadarsky, Shane Booth, Alina van Ryzin, Aline Smithson, Carole Glauber, H. Lisa Solon, Angela Marvel, Epiphany Knedler, Aurore Dal Mas, Niniane Kelley, Catie Soldan, Nikita Gross, Kat Bawden, Evan Maloney, Svea Elisha, Adam Mathieu, Frances Bukovsky, Jonas Yip, Jessica Safely, Elizabeth Bailey, Anne Berry, Bastian Kalous, Cristina Fontsare, Sarah Brooks, Diane Fenster, Paula Rae Gibson, Ross Kiah, Wayne Swanson, J M Golding, Joey Aronhalt, Margaret Flanigan, and Ryan Watson.

We blame ourselves - we can’t help it. “Where did I go wrong?”, we think. Flawed beings, being flawed.
 
I want to thank you all for outing yourselves as flawed beings. We all are, but the strong ones admit it and embrace it. There’s a certain romanticism about that. We are stronger for having to take ourselves head on, and it is that strength that is ferociously attractive. You may even say we’re poetic about it.

Owning what we are and processing our flaws to make them work for us is reflected in our art. With self examination comes thoughtfulness. None of us have the answers, and that in itself is the single greatest idea to come out of this. We are all in this together…our own self-defeating conglomerate of artists with the ability to show the world how to be brutally honest with yourself. Personally, I find solace in knowing that the next person is no more in control of things than I am, no matter how they may appear. You’ve all exposed your flaws to me, and leveled the playing field in the process. This cathartic process is what brings us together and bandages the wounds so that they may heal. Show me your wounds and I’ll show you mine.
Michael Kirchoff

To see images and information about the publication, please click here. To learn more about the juror, please click here. To learn more about the founding editor of Light Leaked, please click here.

Peter Brown Leighton at Northwest Vista College

I was lucky enough to have the chance to curate Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast by Peter Brown Leighton at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas. The exhibit will be featured in the Palmetto Center for the Arts’ gallery space from October 29th to December 2nd.

Writing in 1961, a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez declared that life was the best thing ever invented. If we are to take him at his word, the question left begging is this: If life is in fact the best of inventions, why is it, in our modern era, that humanity seems so persistently inclined to push itself to the very brink of extinction in ever more creative and lethal ways?

The imaginary vernacular images in the series, “Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast”, have been created in the shadows of this paradox. Rooted in the soil of my coming of age, its images are sourced from bits and pieces of discarded analog photographs acquired over the years from the dust bins of the twentieth century.

They represent narrative threads populated by monochrome men fallen from grace, ambivalent women standing on the cusp of reinvention and feral, free range children born to run, all living with the threat of an end to the world as they know it circling high overhead.

These are cultural themes established in my youth that have continued to mutate and metastasize in society for the better part of my life. They inform works in this portfolio that are of the past and yet are also of the world as we know it today, spilling over with question marks and exclamation points, as unpredictable and absurd as ever.
Peter Brown Leighton

To see more of Peter Brown Leighton’s work, please click here.

Water 2 Wine: Austin

I’m very excited to be the current exhibiting artist at Water 2 Wine in North Austin. The exhibit will be up until early December, so stop by for some wine and some photography!

To read more about Water 2 Wine and their events, click here.

Land, Sea, Air at F-Stop Magazing

I'm delighted to have an image amongst so many unique and fascinating photographs as part of F-Stop Magazine's group exhibition, Land, Sea, Air.

Check out all of the works here.

Color

I'm extremely honored to be included in the Color exhibition at the Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina, which was juried by Guy Tal. The exhibition opens on August 3rd from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and it will close on August 28th.

This show features so many amazing images by a plethora of talented photographers, including Claudio Ahlers, Stephen Ashley, Xavier Blondeau, Werner Bonitz, Ludivine Cassan, George Cavalletto, Ron Cooper, Catherine Fairchild, Jane Freely, Samantha Gross, Richard Greene, Patty Hankins, Michael Hart, William Hillyer, Charles Hively, Andrew Hoff, Jon Holloway, Carrie Johnson, Steve Knight, Simon Lewis, Allan Markman, Tanner Messer, Tom Peterson, Parker Reinecker, Sascha Richter, Anita Seltzer, Paul David Shea, Gregory Spaid, Mickey Strider, Kathy Vaksaovich, Wes Walker, Timothy Walker, and Rowene Weems.

The Color photograph. We want to celebrate Color in all its forms at the SE Center. Our juror, Guy Tal, wanted to see creativity and self-expression, and Color, of course. All subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations.

To see all of the images in the exhibition, please click here.

The Family of No Man

I'm really excited to be a part of The Family of No Man exhibition at Les Rencontres d'Arles this week. 🇫🇷

The Family of No Man will be one of the main curatorial events at Cosmos Arles 2018. It includes images from nearly 500 women and inter-gender artists and is curated by Natahsa Christia and Brad Feuerhelm. The aim of this radical curatorial proposition is to revisit Edward Steichen's original Family of Man exhibition (1955), which, in its time, was described as "one of the most ambitious undertakings in an art museum." The Family of No Man will seek to replace the visual register of white male dominance inherent in the original project with an inclusive visual platform of how the world is seen through non-male eyes.

To see all of the images from the exhibition, please click here.

Home at Don't Smile

I feel so fortunate to be included in Don't Smile's Home online exhibition, which was curated by Davìda Carta. There are a lot of poignant, sentimental, and sophisticated imagery included.
Check out all of the work here.

Some of the featured artists include: Phillipa Bloom, Jennie Castle, Elisabetta Cociani, Ginger Cook, Deanna Dikeman, Carissa Dorson, Luar Klinghofer Bar Dov, Amber Eckersley, Kristen Emack, Sara Fahling, Jezabeth Gonzalez, Leah Gose, Jamie Ho, Frances Jakubek, Karolina Kase, Epiphany Knedler, Parvathi Kumar, Sara McIngvale, Kristen McNevins, Sarah Malakoff, Jennifer Mawson, Cristina Rivera, Erika Roa, Karina Rocco, Jesse Shamon, Kaitlyn Jo Smith, Shannon Smith, Morgan Stephenson, Sammy Sweeney, Fiona Szende, Amy Thompson Avishai, Mallory Trecaso, and Charlotte Woolf.

Don't Smile used 100% of the submission fees for Home to donate $1,300 to The Root Social Justice Center in Battleboro, Vermont. The Root Social Justice Center provides an accessible space in Southern Vermont for social justice groups to meet and is a hub for racial justice organizing.

Don't Smile's purpose is simple - to carve out a space of the internet exclusively dedicated for showcasing exceptional photography by women, both established and emerging. The world still seems to be struggling to make space for women in museums, galleries, and print. Don't Smile aims to aid in the shift to a more inclusive industry that celebrates extraordinary photographic work by women from all walks of life and backgrounds.

To learn more about Don't Smile, please visit: http://dont-smile.com/

Don't Smile Zine: Year Two

I'm so honored to be included in this stellar publication, along with a multitude of fabulous female-identifying photographers. Tons of thanks and gratitude to Don't Smile and Melissa Kreider for putting together an absolutely phenomenal outlet that supports art, women, and so many charitable causes.

Click here to pre-order your copy today!

Don't Smile's purpose is simple - to carve out a space of the internet exclusively dedicated for showcasing exceptional photography by women, both established and emerging. The world still seems to be struggling to make space for women in museums, galleries, and print. Don't Smile aims to aid in the shift to a more inclusive industry that celebrates extraordinary photographic work by women from all walks of life and backgrounds.

Absences at LoosenArt Mag/Gallery

I’m absolutely thrilled to be included in the “Absences” exhibition by LoosenArt Mag/Gallery which will be held at the Millepiani space in Rome! Ya girl’s work has gone international and I might actually die from excitement. 🇮🇹

To see all of the work that will be included in the exhibit, please click here.

Memory at Midwest Center for Photography

I'm elated to be included amongst so many talented photographers in the Memory exhibition at the Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita, Kansas. It will be running from February 23rd through March 16th, with an opening on February 23rd from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. To see the work in the exhibition, please click here.

Our current state of awareness is deeply influenced by our experiences, interpretations and memories of the past. These memories shape our stories, our personal histories and identities. Photography is intrinsically a long-standing tool for capturing moments, and the medium has the uncanny ability to recall times that possibly otherwise would have been forgotten. The act of observation and using the camera as a keepsake box to preserve our histories is a unique characteristic of the medium. The photographic works which encompass this exhibition explore the notion of memory through intimate expressions of personal histories, courageously expressed recollections, and a range of experiences.